{"id":305618,"date":"2017-11-01T02:10:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T01:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/hemmerle-ways-to-holiness\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:35:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:35:42","slug":"hemmerle-ways-to-holiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/hemmerle-ways-to-holiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemmerle: Ways to Holiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/585399_1280-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-157720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/585399_1280-a.jpg\" alt=\"585399_1280-a\" width=\"350\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a>Great saints have always begun by moving toward God and toward the poor<\/strong> <strong>and underprivileged <\/strong>in an unconventional way. They left where they were from and went out towards the poor \u2013 not to give alms, but to share life, to take others\u2019 lives in, in such a way that their own radically changed.  The radical choice of God is really, in most cases in the history of salvation, a choice of the poor, a choice of the young in society, a choice of the most vulnerable. It is a choice that is not only about making the situation better, not just increase a bit of donations, or even living a small and temporary part of their lives and then go back to their own situation.  It always comes from <em>metanoia \u2013<\/em> a deep change in mentality, sensibility and being. I belong to them, I am like them, exactly like them before God, and I am not any better than them.  No, I am at their level and, in fact, the Most Holy One came down to that level.  From a homily on January 11, 1993. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/?s=+Klaus+Hemmerle\">Klaus Hemmerle<\/a>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cittanuova.it\/libri\/9788831142335\/la-luce-dentro-le-cose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Light Within all Things<\/a>,<\/em> Rome: Citta\u2019 Nuova, 1998, p. 340.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For All Saints Day, Bishop Klaus Hemmerle (1929\u20131994), theologian and philosopher, proposes a sanctity that begins with sharing all our gifts with the poor and disadvantaged, knowing how to be at their level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}